Summary
Jan Schaumann is a seasoned infrastructure and security architect with 15+ years of experience designing resilient, scalable systems for major internet platforms and edge networks. Currently Chief Information Security Architect at Akamai, he has led high-impact initiatives—Zero Trust strategy, trusted builds and attestation, TLS and edge security—previously shaping infrastructure security at Yahoo, Twitter, Etsy and others. An ongoing adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, he brings uncommon depth in UNIX internals and system administration to both production architectures and graduate teaching. An active NetBSD developer and long-time open-source maintainer, his work has quietly influenced tools and platforms many users rely on, from pkgsrc ports to enterprise configuration management at 100K-host scale.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Studies towards Magister Artium Contemporary German Literature And Media, Studies towards Magister Artium Contemporary German Literature And Media at The Philipp University of Marburg
English, German, Spanish